How Did Napoleon Become A Tyrant

Napoleon’s Impacts and The Napoleonic Wars
After Napoleon’s success during his process to seize power in 1799, this ambitious man moved on with his plans to take over countries. His first plan was to take command in the Alps. And with that he selfishly sent his ally, or ‘stepping stone’ -General Moreau to the Rhine frontier. So that he, Napoleon, could take over the grand mission. This time, with their enemy being the Austrian General Michael Friedrich von Melas, Napoleon was confident enough to believe that their enemy was more than 50 miles away when his troops arrived at Alessandria. But was welcomed by an attack with the Austrian army. Napoleon’s troops were clearly outnumbered and were pushed back 4 miles by 3 PM. This famous Battle of Marengo couldn’t have been won if if wasn’t for Napoleon’s 10,000 reinforcements. The question is, if Napoleon was, as he thought, much greater than those before him, then why would he have such narrow victory during the Battle of Marengo? Was his insufficient source of confidence the element that lead him into becoming a tyrant?
Even at an early stage like this, people were able to see what a monster he would become in the near future, and chose to remove him unscrupulously. But, with all of those innocent people dead from the incident, Napoleon survived. People tend to look back at the event and ask, why wasn’t Napoleon dead instead of all those innocent people who were simply passing by? Cause after all, the death of these people were only the start, with hundreds and thousands that